Course: 2058 English Literature: Romantic and Victorian Periods

Instructor: Hsing-chun Chou

Office hours: Wed. 13:00-15:00

Syllabus

September 5 Introduction: The Romantic Period

12 William Blake: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience
19 William Wordsworth: “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern
Abbey,” Preface to Lyrical Ballads; “Resolution and Independence”
26 Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
October 3 George Gordon, Lord Byron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto 1,
Don Juan Canto 1
10 Holiday
17 Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Mutability,” “England in 1819,” “Ode to the
West Wind,” A Defence of Poetry
24 John Keats: “Ode to Psyche,” “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on
Melancholy,” “To Autumn”
31 Mid-term exam
November 7 Introduction: The Victorian Age
14 Thomas Carlyle: Past and Present; John Stuart Mill: The Subjection of
Women, Autobiography
21 Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “Mariana,” “The Lotos-Eaters,” “Ulysses”;
Robert Browning: “Porphyria’s Lover”
28 “Fra Lippo Lippi”; Matthew Arnold: “The Function of Criticism at the
Present Time,” Culture and Anarchy
December 5 John Ruskin: Modern Painters, The Stones of Venice; Walter Pater:
Studies in the History of the Renaissance
12 Bernard Shaw: Mrs. Warren’s Profession
19 Bernard Shaw: Mrs. Warren’s Profession
26 Final exam
January 2 Presentation